Various functions are available for managing your securities positions. You can use these to map the changes that securities positions undergo over time.

Here you can find evaluation reports for securities account management. These contain information on quantities in the securities positions.

The Securities account transfer function enables you to transfer a position from one securities account to another.

The Corporate actions function enables you to represent capital changes at listed companies.

The system has various standard functions for dealing with: stock splits, stock swaps, capital reductions, capital increases from retained earnings, transferring new stock, and posting subscription rights and issue currency changeover. Besides these, you can use the corporate action category 'manually generated' to define capital changes yourself.

Here you can import the statements and use them for reconciliation purposes.

This includes the functions for automatic and manual debit positions and also manual posting.

The function Update Planned Records recalculates the cash flows for the selected securities positions and updates the database.

Here there are functions for processing, locking and unlocking security positions.

These functions are required for the conversion to the euro.

The deadline monitoring function reminds clerks of pending deadlines by sending them a mail.

The securities account management functions have been switched to update types as of Release CFM 1.0. You make the securities account management settings in the following IMG activities:

Under Transaction Manager ® Securities ® Position Management ® Securities Account Management and Securities Account Transfer, you first define the required update types and then assign them to the usages 0002 Securities Account Management or 0003 Securities Account Transfer. You must also make settings in the following IMG activities:

• Securities Account Transfer ® Update Types ® Assign Update Types for Securities Account Transfer
• Securities Account Management ® Update Types ® Specify Update Types for Securities Account Management and Assign Update Types to the Functions of Security Account Management

Under Accounting in Operative Valuation Area ® Flow Types ® Define Flow types, you define flow types corresponding to the update types in securities account management.

Under Accounting in Operative Valuation Area ® Flow types ® Assign Flow Types to Update Type, you assign the flow types to the corresponding update types in securities account management.

Under Accounting in Operative Valuation Area ® Link to Other Accounting Components ® Define Account Determination, you define the posting rules for the flow types.

If you have parallel valuation areas in addition to the operative valuation area, you must also define the posting specifications for the update types in the parallel valuation areas. You do this under Transaction Manager ® General Settings ® Accounting ® Parallel Valuation Areas ® Link to Other Accounting Components ® Define Account Determination.